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The Minutemen, whose leader Chris Simcox has endorsed Republican/Conservative U.S. Senate hopeful John Spencer, have decided to take their objection to illegal immigration from Mexico into their own hands.

In a letter today, the group said if President Bush doesn’t deploy the military to patrol the border, it will break ground in 30 days on an elaborate fence to keep out illegal aliens. The group says it has teamed up with six landowners to get started on the fence, which would stretch some 2,000 miles (the six properties are just a fraction of that). It’s trying to hold costs to about $150 a foot. That still would cost about $1.6 billion.

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